Travis comes through with the long ball as Jays win.

Jays in Sarasota to play Orioles. Win 4-1 and the good news is on both hitting and pitching fronts.

Travis Snider gets his monkey off his back with his first spring home run. Now he can relax. On the pitching side Brian Tallet gets his act together with four great one hit innings and facing only 13 at the plate. With three strikeouts he had help with the defense and six out of nine ground ball outs. This is what he has to do to be successful, get ball in play and let his defense work for him.

Behind Tallet, Camp, Downs, Gregg and Frasor provided four scoreless innings with only one walk between them and that to Gregg. Valdez gave up the one Orioles run in the ninth. Downs also had a great pickoff of Florimon jr. at first. I think Cito likes to see Frasor, Gregg and Downs fight it out in the same game, talk about incentive for that closer role.
Frasor gets his ERA down 10.80 to whilst Scott Downs has yet to have a run scored against him this spring.

Other hits for the Jay included two more for Emaus raising his spring average to .367Libanski a triple and singles to Gonzalez, Jeremy Reed, Ruiz, Gathright and Chavez. Dopirak gets the other rbi with a sac fly ball.

The not so good: Jays hitters left eleven on base and went 1-11 today with runners in scoring position, even though this was not the first team not good at all.
Berken had a rough outing for the Orioles giving up three earned runs in his three innings all in the third.

Meantime over at Bright House it was World Series match up between the Phillies and the Yankees. Crazy sell-out crowd and in fact announced at 10,640 a new ground record. Hard to tell who was supporting whom as both team supporters had their green St. Patrick’s Day shirts on. But today it was the Phillies who had the most to shout about.

Pettite v Blanton and had the best of Andy Petitte who gave up the first two runs in his four inning outing. Blanton went five and also hit twice so Phillies won with eight. One a successful bunt that had A-Rod going for it but not diving.
Phillies hero today was yes Jayson Werth obviously watching great performance by Dominic Brown yesterday and definitely looking over his shoulder. His three-run home run put this one away for the Phillies making the score 5-2 and they go on to win 6-2Jabba Chamberlain had three good innings giving up one.
A-Rod not a factor in this one, struck out first at bat to great delight of the crowd.

I also like Phillies Cody Ransom who hit two home runs against Jays last week in two separate games on the same day. Cody had another hit today playing at third. The Phillies are one strong team with so much depth. Werth was replaced by John Mayberry jr. and Dominic Brown has been sent to the minor league camp to give him as much game time as possible.

I must add how impressive the crowd control at Bright House is after the game. I have rarely had to lineup to get out of the parking at Joe Dimaggio lots. The police have the traffic control down to a fine art.Today even with the record crowd it was no problem at all.